Tree Tutorial

Trees are generally pesky things to draw - they involve lots of pesky textures, and shortcuts don't work well. I made this tutorial in order to suggest one approach to drawing tree bark.

The tools used for this tutorial are Corel Painter 8 and a Trust tablet. I'm not sure I'd want to try doing this with a mouse, but you can. :P

This approach works best if you work big - preferably bigger than what I have here. You can shrink it back down afterwards. There are two reasons for this; big size: 1) saves time by imitating more detail where there is less work, 2) uses the digital airbrush's subtle texture much better.